Image & Restore RAID 1; BSOD, and other suggestions needed
I've got a series of systems I'm trying to setup. The hardware spec is the same, same ASRock A75M-ITX motherboard, and same Crucial 512GB SSD's (2 Drives). The systems are all setup to be RAID 1. I've setup a master system and created a clone onto an external SSD drive. The setup is basically Windows 7 32bit with all my software and settings I want to replicate.
I boot up with the Acronis Boot CD and go into the tools to clone the external drive onto my new machine. Everything seems to work, but when I reboot the clone Windows 7 machine Blue screens on startup... Does anyone know what might be wrong here?
The only way around this I found is to make both Drives RAID READY in the BIOS. Clone to the first disk, and once done, in Windows 7, use AMD's RAIDXPert tool to recreate my RAID 1... This works, but the RAID creation can take up to 4 hours to complete... I'm looking for a way to either make the RAID 1 clone work (ideal), or to find out if there is a faster way to recreate the RAID 1 after restore to a RAID READY disk... One last note, the completed setup is only about 50GB out of the 500GB capacity of the drive.
Thanks for any assistance or advice,
Dower
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Thanks for replying Colin. What do you mean by imaging a RAID? Because I set the system up as a RAID 1 before I cloned the HD... But then again, I only cloned my RAID1 to a single external disk... Do you mean clone the RAID to another RAID drive instead? Something like an external RAID enclosure?
For the BSOD, it flashes real quick before rebooting... Is there a way to slow it down or prevent the auto reboot?
I'm also guessing that the RAID is software, since it's built into the motherboard bios, and not through a dedicated RAID controller...
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Dower,
It I read your approach literally, you are *cloning* your RAID to an SSD disk and then *cloning* back to another RAID?
You should try to *backup*, using your disk and partition backup feature, including all the partitions on the RAID1, and store this backup on a USB disk, Then plug the USB disk on the other computer after the RAID has been set up BIOS, boot on the recovery CD, verify that the recovery CD sees you RAID correctly (a single volume. If it sees 2 disks, the operation won't work), and then restore your image to the RAID.
I am guessing the recovery CD doesn't see your RAID correctly...
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Thanks Pat, It's been a little while since I last tried this, so I'll have to give it another go.
I forgot to mention that my RAID 1 on my systems use 2 Crucial SSD's. I don't think that makes a difference, but I figure I'd mention that.
If memory serves me right, I used the clone disk option, to clone my RAID, now maybe this wasn't the right option to choose, since maybe it ended up only cloning the disk and not the RAID... So I'll look at the options again when I get some systems to work on. I do recall that the Recovery CD did see the RAID as a single disk... So, it might be the back up option I chose wasn't compatible? I'll try that in the next few days and report back on what I find.
Thanks.
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